Very stable employment in both the good and bad ways. - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
10 Aug 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Boeing is a very stable environment at the site I work at. It is a generally laid back atmosphere with strong compensation. Most of it's benefits are competitive with peer companies and generally it would take a lot to get fired or laid off.

Cons

Unfortunately that stability also seeps into a seeming inability to make cuts based upon performance. It reminds me of office space where you only need to do just enough to not get fired. As long as you don't care how long it takes to move up this is a great environment. Forget what people might have told you about Boeing having great fringe benefits such as education reimbursement. Benefits have been on the decline lately. The business is facing some headwinds which results in our "Industry Leading" benefits now becoming merely "competitive." And by competitive they mean average.

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5.0
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Pros

Good Environment and great colleagues

Cons

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3.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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